GeoMesa Metrics

GeoMesa provides integration with the DropWizard Metrics library for real-time reporting with the geomesa-metrics module.

Reporters are available for CloudWatch, Prometheus, Graphite, and SLF4J.

Configuration

Reporters are configured via TypeSafe Config. All reporters share a few common properties:

Configuration Property

Description

rate-units

The Java TimeUnit used to report rates, e.g seconds, minutes, etc. For example, for a requests meter, you can configure it to show requests per second or requests per hour

duration-units

The Java TimeUnit used to report durations, e.g. seconds, milliseconds, etc. For example, for a request timer, you can configure it to show the time taken in seconds or milliseconds

units

A fallback to use if rate-units and/or duration-units are not specified, which can simplify the configuration

interval

How often the reporter should run, e.g. 60 seconds or 10 minutes. For example, a logging reporter will write a log message once per interval

Logging Reporter

GeoMesa includes a logging reporter using SLF4J.

Configuration Property

Description

type

Must be slf4j

logger

The name of the logger to use, e.g. org.locationtech.geomesa.metrics

level

The level to write out log messages at, e.g. info, debug, etc

Example configuration:

{
  type     = "slf4j"
  units    = "milliseconds"
  interval = "60 seconds"
  logger   = "org.locationtech.geomesa.metrics"
  level    = "debug"
}

CloudWatch Reporter

The CloudWatch reporter can be included by adding a dependency on org.locationtech.geomesa:geomesa-metrics-cloudwatch. The CloudWatch reporter uses the default credentials and region specified in your AWS profile config.

Configuration Property

Description

type

Must be cloudwatch

namespace

The CloudWatch namespace to use

raw-counts

Boolean - report the raw value of count metrics instead of reporting only the count difference since the last report

zero-values

Boolean - POSTs to CloudWatch all values. Otherwise, the reporter does not POST values which are zero in order to save costs

Example configuration:

{
  type        = "cloudwatch"
  units       = "milliseconds"
  interval    = "60 seconds"
  namespace   = "mynamespace"
  raw-counts  = false
  zero-values = false
}

Prometheus Reporter

The Prometheus reporter can be included by adding a dependency on org.locationtech.geomesa:geomesa-metrics-prometheus. The Prometheus reporter supports normal Prometheus scraping as well as the Prometheus Pushgateway. Note that the unit and interval configurations described above do not apply to Prometheus reporters.

Prometheus Scraping

The standard Prometheus reporter will expose an HTTP endpoint to be scraped by Prometheus.

Configuration Property

Description

type

Must be prometheus

port

The port used to expose metrics

suffix

A suffix to append to all metric names

Example configuration:

{
  type = "prometheus"
  port = "9090"
}

Prometheus Pushgateway

For short-lived jobs, metrics can be sent to a Prometheus Pushgateway instead of being exposed for scraping.

Configuration Property

Description

type

Must be prometheus-pushgateway

gateway

The Pushgateway host

job-name

The name of the batch job being run

suffix

A suffix to append to all metric names

Example configuration:

{
  type     = "prometheus-pushgateway"
  gateway  = "http://pushgateway:8080/"
  job-name = "my-job"
}

Graphite Reporter

The Graphite reporter can be included by adding a dependency on org.locationtech.geomesa:geomesa-metrics-graphite.

Configuration Property

Description

type

Must be graphite

url

The connection string to the Graphite instance

prefix

Prefix prepended to all metric names

ssl

Boolean to enable or disable SSL connections

Example configuration:

{
  type           = "graphite"
  url            = "localhost:9000"
  ssl            = false
  prefix         = "example"
  rate-units     = "seconds"
  duration-units = "milliseconds"
  interval       = "10 seconds"
}

If SSL is enabled, standard Java system properties can be used to control key stores and trust stores, i.e. javax.net.ssl.keyStore, etc.

Extensions

Additional reporters can be added at runtime by implementing org.locationtech.geomesa.metrics.core.ReporterFactory and registering the new class as a service provider.